Crossword for Wed, 19/Feb/2020

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Across
1: Head parts

6: Thrusting blow

10: Shiite leader

14: Praise

15: Sleeveless outer garment

16: Symbol of stubbornness

17: Pierced

19: Parcel of land

20: Hair fixers

21: Get mad

23: Become bony

26: Prickly shrub

27: Finds fault with

28: Signs of healing

31: 'Ciao' in Chihuahua

32: Any day now

33: Egg, classically

37: Nexus

38: Verbose

39: Not finalized, legally

40: Dole (out)

41: Really dislike

42: Quite the expert

43: Feeds the hogs

45: Firesign Theatre skit, e.g.

46: Village People's genre

49: Tattered state

50: Surface

52: Whiskey measure

53: Plum variety, commonly

54: Sign that changes the pitch of a note

60: Fluish feeling

61: Horse color

62: Oater omen

63: Observed

64: Unspecified amount

65: Mirrors companion in deception
Down
1: Kind of talk

2: Fireman's tool

3: Ancient mariner

4: Yuletide worker

5: Cheap cigars

6: Like snakeskin

7: Skin designs, for short

8: Musclebound brute

9: Where oysters grow

10: Do Miss Piggy, say

11: Prefix with vitamin

12: Maui greeting

13: Rhythmic pattern in poetry

18: Whistle-blowers, of a sort

22: Fall off, as the tide

23: Jukebox choice

24: John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo

25: Thing that conceals

27: Aromatic salve

28: Does a pre-laundry chore

29: Morse's creation

30: Whichever

32: Word before opera or dish

34: Brilliant

35: Kind of fee

36: 'I'll catch it!'

38: 'Quadrophenia' band, with 'The'

42: Arboreal carnivores

44: Item placed on andirons

45: Wearing wedgies, say

46: 'Ballet Rehearsal' artist

47: Reputation in society

48: Smooth transition

49: 1996 Geoffrey Rush film

51: Dumbo's 'wings'

52: Con job

55: Pigeon patter

56: Nice handle

57: Excessively

58: 'Shoot'

59: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda




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